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1, Following are the results of the debriefing of AMPAUNA~14 in
the JMWAVE area from 422 November to 2 December 1963.

3. AMFAUNA-14 did not leave her apartment all day Sunday, 6 Oct,
fa Honday, 7 October, she went to work as usual. When she arrived, she
found a letter waiting for her which had been forwarded to her office
from her accommodation address; it was in AMPAUNA-1's handwriting and
contained nothing of any interest, so she was sure there was a secret
writing message on it. -

3, At 1253 hours two men arrived at the office, one about 45 years
old and short, who from his appearance might have been a bus driver,
and the other a very young dark-skinned man. They walked into the
office vestibule and toid the guard that they wanted to see AMFAUNA~14. |
fhe guard came into the office to give AMFAUNA-14 the message, and the
two men followed right behind. They told AMFAUNA-14 that she had to
come with them to identify an arrested person. AMFAUNA-14 said that
eho would have to ask her supervisor for permission to leave, because
it was not yet closing time. She turned to go back into the office,
and the two men followed her in. The supervisor told her that it .
would be all right for her to go, but said that she should check in by
phone if there were any difficulty. AMFAUNA*id's father and uncle,
both of whom work in the same office, asked whether they could come
with her. The men said no, because she would be coming right back;
they said they were taking her to "G-2" headquarters in La Vibora,

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4, * AwrauNA-id tried to dispose of the letter shé had just re- -
*. ceived from ANFAUNA-1 by leaving, it on the desk of a fellow employee
‘together with some potatoes and a carrot for cover, but the men would
“mot let her, She did, however, manage to destroy a page from her note-

book containing telephone numbers.

S. At the DSE headquarters in Villa Maristas, AMFAUNA-14 was
_ turned over to a militiawoman who had her strip and perrormed a body
‘§ search on her. She was fingerprinted and photographed and her biograph
data were taken down, after which she was locked in a cell which had
an adjoining private bath. Nothing else of importance happened for
the rest of the day.

6. During her four-day detention period, AMFAUNA-14 was handled |
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“Le RoRe'-39% El) Prancigco “ABAD: AMFAUNA-14 believes that this is hia
aloname. He no roduce himself, but she saw the name on her
release papers which he signed. He was born about 1918 and is about
5*4" tall, weighs about 160 pounds, and haz a fat build, aquiline nose,
greenish eyes, dark skin, grey-brown wavy hair, rough laborer's hands,
and two teeth missing from the lower jaw. He smokes both cigars and
cigarettes, his manner was soft and kindly, and AMFAUNA-14 believes
-he ia probably poorly educated. He is married, but AMFAUNA-14 did not
arn whether he has children or what his address is. He wears civilia
“pilothes and drives a black 1956 Pontiac with a grey roof. Discussing
@ man later in the AMCOG household, AHFAUNA-14 was told by Pedro
I o is a brother of Justo CARRILIO) that Pedro knows ABAD.
cording to Pedro, ABAD is part Jewish and\an old Communist who worked
: aX¢g pd on behalf of Fidel TRO during the Batista

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ave some regrets

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Pedro CARRILLO thinks that ABAD may now
about the course he has taken.

(b) “Carlos” aka "Samuel": AMFAUNA-14 does not know hie true
name, He was born about IS4Z or perhaps a little earlier. He is _
about 5°6" tall, weighs about 150 pounds, and has a muscular build, —
drooping eyelids, light olive skin, wavy chestnut hair with a widows —
peak. He is a nervous pacer, and walks with his head bent forward and
‘tilted slightly to one side, An expression which he frequently used
was "0.E." pronounced “OKAH" with the accent on the first syllable.

He told AMFAUNA-14 that he had been a student in the Commercial School
of Havana, that he had worked clandestinely under the Batista regime,
had been arrested by Col, Esteban VENTURA Novo, had been released due
to the influence of his father, and had gotten out.of the country with
the aid of the Mexican Ambassador to Cuba, coming then to the United
States. He drives a 1959 black and white Chevrolet Corvair, wears

/ eivilian clothea#, and carries a pistol, sometimes a .45 and sometimes
a .38, AMFAUNA-14 believes him to be a 100% Communist. She thinks he

' gay have been somewhat better trained than Francisco ABAD and may have
been somewhat superior in rank, although this was never clearly evident
Thera soemed to be a little professional jealousy between the two men.
If she told one man something which she had been unable to remember’
for the other, the second would show signs of jealousy or resentment.
“Carlos” subsequently told ANFAUNA-14 to phone 61-4319 and ask for
“Gemuel" when she wanted to reach him. She phoned him at this number
about ten times in all. The phone was alwaya answered by the same
woman, except for. once when a boy answered and then called for his
mcther to come and take the phone, AMFAUNA-14 would ask for "Samuel"
aud the woman would invariably reply that he was not there. AMFAUNA-
14 would then ask the woman to take a message for him to please call
"Dolores," The woman would always reply "Yes, Comrade." Discussing
this person later within the AMCOG household, AMFAUNA-14 was told by
Tereel (PADILLA )that he,thought "Carlog" Samue 1PARODILES . $5-S*

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Comment: The physical de arlos" does not
match that of Bamuel RODILES Plana. lephone’ numbe' ~4319 is
listed in the 1962 Havana telephone dir 'y.to one Maria Antonia

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Namo inolude HCSA-09806 of 233 April 1963 showing that one Maria CARCANO
Arujo (born 7 December 1935) travelled to Chile in March and April 1963
on @ diplomatic passport. An AMOT report of 27 September 1962 mentions
one Antonia CARCANO Araujo as a communist in charge of vigilance, and |
living at 47 Artes St., Casablanca. There also appears to be a Maria
ARAUJO (born about 1904) who ia an old-timo Communist living at Artes
47. AMFAUNA-1 has been given the names of several former residents of
this neighborhood in hopes of finding a relative of the CARCANO or
ARAUJO families whose physical description matches that of "Carlos,"
ATVAUMA-1 has ealao interviewed Col, VENTUNA in the WAVE aren. VENTURA
remembers case similar to that of "Carlos" but doea not remomber the
boy's name. He says that he seems to remuaber that the boy's father
wea connected with one Jose LOPEZ Villaboy (on whom WAVE haw numerous
traces) and that he was assisted in getting to Mexico by _a Mexican

diplomat named "Benjamin." @qyricusA 26-75 nati Deb. #79237
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14a interrogation. She never heard his name at thie time, but later
, saw him on televisiod interrogating AMSIGdi-2 and he was identified
then aa Jose Antonio FERNANDEZ Menert. She does. not believe that this
is hia true name, beoduse it is her understanding that DSE officers use
aliases in their public appearances. He is about 5°11" tall, slender,
with darkigh skin and black hair combed straight back. He has very
large green cold eyes. He was born about 1930 and appears to be un-
educated, vith a cynical and vulgar manner. He wears Gi satand
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7, At ebout 1600 or 1700 hours on Tuesday, 8 October, AMFAUNA-T7
‘was brought into ABAD's office for her first interview. ABAD began
by asking if she knew why she was there. AMFAUNA-14 replied that she
fad mo idea. ABAD observed that that was strange, because he had
judged her to bo an able and intelligent woman. PeCOA Lac VER CF
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8. Honestly believing that ghe might have been denounced by the
jealous wife of her lover, Manue 1F#COMPANION ,» AMFA -14 suggested —
that it might & personal matter, x @& LU NEGR 6 NCB: C14
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8. gaid that it\was not, He-then her if she knew ons“
Luis Braulio ILLAR Negret?, AMPAUNA-14 said that she did not, ABAD
eaid that th was strange, because VILLAR Negret knew her. He asked
4f she w one Angel *BRINGAS. AMFAUNA-14 said that she did. ABAD |
Aref oak tte eRe EN NAT TRS, AF a BE ae PURSE MRO
; 10. AMPAUNA-14 said that she knew the man as Luis *NEGREJ/and had
not recognised the name VILLAR Negret, _ Goer reankho
Ch Be eed 45. |
11. ABAD told AMFAUNA-14 that NEGRET was then under deYenttor and
head implicated AMFAUNA-14 in his confession. ABAD wanted to know wha
ANVAUHA-14's -connsction with NEGRET had been. AMFAUNA-14 said that
MBGRET had been in her house once, and once in her mother's,

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18, At this point ‘in the interrogation, ABAD was called away and
AMPADHA-14 was returned to her cell. Two hours later the interrogation

was resuned, %

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213. ABAD picked up where he had left off, and asked AMFAUNA-14
what connection she had had with Angel BRINGAS. AMFAUNA~14 said that
she had known BRINGAS no better than she had known NEGRET, ABAD said
that she was lying and urged that she cooperate. AMFAUNA-14 promised
that she would cooperate. ABAD said that NEGRET had told the DSE that
AMVAUHA-14 had had sexual relations with BRINGAS, and AMFAUNA-14 denied
the allegation.

14,.-The interrogation was again interrupted, and AMPAUNA-14 was
ret to her cell. When she returned to the interrogation room,
ahe #aw that ABAD had an envelope containing what she recognized to be
papers taken from her apartment, including airline passenger manifests,

ciphering material, instructions for using the deciphering material, oe ‘
and insurance policies and personal papers belonging to AMFAUNA-1.
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cooperate with the DSE, as’ AMFAUNA-1 had briefed her to do in ‘such a
‘mituation.

15, - ABAD began by telling her that she was in a very serious —

situation because he knew that she had had very close connections
® KUBARK agent. ABAD asked whether AMFAUNA~1 was identical with

Nyuite.” AMPAUNA-14 gaid that AMFAUNA-1 had been known as "Julio,"
SBAD then wanted to know whether NEGRET had been working with "Julio."
AMPAUNA-14 denied this. ABAD asked whether NEGRET had known "Julio,"
AMPAUHA-14 denied this too, but volunteered the information that "Julio!
had provided NEGRET with mail facilities, and that AMFAUNA-14 had been |
the cutout between them, Did NEGRET know of "Julio's" existance, ABAD
wanted to Know. AMFAUNA-14 said thet herdaxd not, that she had brought -
MBGRET mail and money which she had gotten from "Julio," and had picked
wail up from him and delivered it to “Sulto, " but that NEGRET had
never known "Julio's" identity.

16. The truth about AMFAUNA-14's relations with NEGRET and BRINGAS
' according to her statements to her KUBARK case officer in November 1963
in the JMWAVE area, is as follows:

: (a) In about mid-1962, AMCOG-2 asked AMFAUNA-14 to serve as
cutout’ ‘between herself and an unidentified agent, and AMFAUNA-14
« AMFAUNA-14 was driven to the meeting site, which was on the
Bidewalk in front of a textile factory near Calle 100 in Marianao, by

2's chauffeur, a Spaniard named "Segundo," This agent introduced .
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himself to AMNFAUNA- only as. "El *NEGRO", and * AMFAUNA-14 described |
herself to him as an employee of an unidentified embassy. For contact .
. purposes, “El Negro" gave her the telephone number 29-4900 or 40-4900,

(b) Later, when AMFAUNA-14 began to trust "El Negro" more,
ghe gave him the telephone number of her mother, She learned that
R21 Ragrotfa" true name wae taie RBranlio VILLAR Negret, and that he
~ Javed in a omall room in the rear of the textile factory, The telephone
‘fumber which he had given her was always answered by a woman whose
Heme ahe learned to be "Maximina,"

° (c) VILLAR Negret was born about 1928, and was about Btait

tall with broad shoulders and.a strong build. He had black wavy hair, |

brewn ‘eycs, an olive skin, and a face marked by acne. AMFAUNA-14
_ Rever learned anything about his family directly from him, but DSE

officers told her that he was married with one child, and thes h

parents lived on a farm in Pinar del Rio Province, 1.14

(4d) VILLAR Negret was a member o

Denocratica, which AMFAUNA-14 understands to be a successor organizatios:

to the AAA of Aureliano SANCHEZ Arango, He had formerly belonged to
en action component of this organization, but more recently had de-
oP perue himsel? to intelligence collection. AMPAUNA-14 brought h Ate
fuctions and money from AMCOG-2, and picked up his intelligenc “
./eoports which she delivered to ANCOG-2, She underst that "AMCOG-2
jent these reports via diplomatic channela to Fr: AEZ inNjiant As
‘ ty efelivered them to. an individual identified only as
c Mes," The last contact which AMFAUNA-14 had had with

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5570, On various other subsequent’ Secasions ”BRINGAS Filled in
for “BY Negro." WELINFC. CN 909. PROViDEN GY 20/-RTS

(f) According to what the DSE officers told her, "El Negro"
was errested about 1 October and was to be shot. AMFAUNA-14 asked her
DSE interrogators whether it would not be possible to reindoctrinate
"Bl Negro” instead of shoot him, but they told her that it was not
worth the trouble because "El Negro" was a:person of iow morals who.

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be shown to Angel BRINGAS when and 11f ue As caugnt, .

(g) On 12 or 13 October 1963, after AMFAUNA-14 had been re- -
leased, she was tolephoned at her place of employment ‘by Angel BRINGAS.
who told her guardedly that "Bl Negro" had been arrested and said that
he would like to send a female cousin of his to talk to AMFAUNA-14. A
meeting was arranged in the home of ANFAUHA-14's mother,- The female
cousin, whose name was "Gladys", told AMFAUNA-14 that BRINGAS had gone
into hiding and wondered whether "the family with which she worked"
(the AMCOGS) could help him get into asylum, AHMFAUNA-14 snid that she
doubted this. "Gladys" told AMFAUNA-14 that, in case it were possible
to do anything for BRINGAS, she should tc lephone "Gladys" with an
innocent message. It was understood that @ meeting would take place at
1600 hours on the same day of the telephone call at the Ten Cent Store
9rd between 10th and 12th in Vedado, AM#AUNA-14 does not remember -
Gladys' telephone number which was left with her mother.

(h) In spite of what AMFAUNA-14 told the DSE, AMFAUNA-1 had:
had nothing to do with NEGRET. AMFAUNA-i4 had told this story to pro-
tect ARCOG-2, NEGRET had known that AMCOG-2 was involved, and had once
had a meoting with her in her home. Nevertheless, AMFAUNA-14 briefed
ABCOG-2 on the cover story which she had told the DSE and told her that,
dn case she were ever arrested and questioned, she should admit having
talked to NEGRET in her home, but deny having been involved in the
communications channel or knowing anything about it,

Station Comment: Luis Braulio VILLAR Negret appears to be =...
identical WIth Wale FREORE Villar (born 4 November 1930 in Consolacion
del Sur, Pinar del Rio), who is carded as ACSI source No. 492 and |
appears in AMBUD correspondence as National Coordinator of the Accion ——
Revolucionaria Democratica. "El Guajiro Bermudez” appears to be iden-.
tical with Gerardo Jose *QUESADA Vasquez (201-292022) (born 9 May 1919,
Pinar dei Rio), President and founder of Accion Revolucionaria Democrati

GN was ages scurce Mr, 498, Thare ass ea Station trareg on Angel BRINGAS.
B/ sh fhe 1968 Havana: telephone djrectory has no listing ee
“a Av. do #4)17, Marianso,’ JMWA

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has no traces on him. There‘is no listing under 70-5570, Calle #3
under 70-5579 there is the Cubana, Je Rayos x Foto, ob:

72, La Rampa.) SA STF REIN MES. P,

17. ABAD appeared to be part feularly interested in how NBSGRET’ ‘and
"Julio" obtained their funds, and kept returning to thie subject during
the interrogation,

16, ABAD then addressed himself to the contents of the envelope
and a suitcase found in AHFAUNA-14‘'s apartment. He commented that all
these. things appeared to belong to AMFAUNA-1 and his son, and asked .how
they happened to be there, ANMFAUNA-14 replied that AMFAUNA-1 and his
eon, together with AMFAUNA-3, had been hiding for a few days in her
apartment because their usual hiding place had become unavailable.

19. ABAD wanted to know how and when AMFAUNA-14 had first riet
AMPAUHA-1. ANFAUNA-14 replied that she had met AMFAUNA-1 in about
February 1962, that AMFAUNA-1 had regularly parked his car in a lot near
her office and that they had seen each other on the street frequently,
that ANFAUNA-1- had finally spoken to her, and that a friendship had:-
doveloped which finally turned into a love affair, (Comment: This was
a lie told to conceal the fact that it had been AMCUTLER=2 who had in--
troduced thes.) She said that AMFAUNA-1 had been her lover until about
July 1963 when she broke up with him because he was too busy with .
clandestine work to pay the proper amount . of attention to her.

20, ABAD asked what part AMFAUNA-14 had played in AMFAUNA-1's .
clandestine activities, AMFAUNA-14 replied that AMFAUNA-1..would some-
. tises telephone her late at night to invite her to go out for a ride,
and she would then find that AHFAUNA-1 was going out to have agent
seetings and wanted her along for cover, ABAD asked whom AMFAUNA-1 had
been meeting. AMFAUNA-14 mentioned. a person known as "Gustavo" and :
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gave the physical description of AMFAUNA-24, whom ehe knew to be safely - | -
out of Cuba. (She nevor knew AMFAUNA-24's true name.) She also mentioned
Manolo *VILLAMANAN, the true name of AMFAUNA-13 (whom she: had. known

Only as ANFAUNA-1's business partner but when she thought she :could .
gafoly mention now that he was out of Cuba.) For good measure she added

@ notional name and physical description. SO

21. Referring back to AMFAUNA-1'e automobile, ABAD asked what
kind of a car he had driven, AMFAUNA-14 replied that it was a gray
Chevrolet Impala. She repeated that ANFAUNA-1 had formerly parked it
near her office, but said that she had not ssen it recently. ABAD
apked where AMFAUNA-1's red car was, and she said she did not know, He
asked what the license number on this car was, and she said she did not
Brow, He never asked anything about the third car which AMFAUNA-1 had .

obtained.

22. ABAD commented that the DSE had observed AMFAUNA-1 in his
automobile in the Havana dock area on 1 January 1963, having a meeting
with another person. (AMFAUNA-14 recalls that this other person was
ANPAUNA-24, and that he and AMFUANA-1 had rendezvoused in the dock area ~
after an attempt to pick up AMFAUNA-1's radio.

$3. With reference to the KUBARK agent known as "Julio", whom
they had recently identified with AMFAUNA-1, ABAD said that he knew
that "Julio" had left Cuba in October 1962 and believed that he had
gone to Rurope, but he said he did not know whether "Julio" had gone
Clandestinely or legally. ;

24. AMPAUNA-14 was asked about AMFAUNA-1's subsources in other
provinces, tut she said she knew nothing about them, ABAD eaid he was
eure that ANPAUNA-1 had a gond anurre an the Tala of Pinaa. Whore war
nane might be "Raul", ABAD also mentioned the name of a person who had
been shot about two weeks previously and who he believed had been work-
dng with AMFAUNA-1. (AHMFAUNA-14 does not remember the name of this

percon., )

35. ABAD asked if AMFAUNA-1'e son had helped him in thie clandes-:.
tine work. AMFAUNA-14. replied that the gon had been with AMFAUNA-1 .
freqvontly, but that she thought it was only because he was helping.
AMPAUNA-1 with his business. end that the son probably had had nothing
to do with clandestine work. we

28. ABAD again turned to the envelope of papers found in AMFAUNA~14
apartment, and maid he could see she was not cooperating with him. She
was not volunteering information, he said, but waiting to be asked
questions. ABAD said he was sure that there waa much that AMPAUNA-14-
could tell him spontaneously, and he intimated that there might be a-
chance for her to rehabilitate herself.

$7. ABAD asked her where the passenger lista came from. AMFAUNA-14
wepliod that they had been left in her apartment by AHFAUNA-1, who.
intended to instruct her later by SW what to do with them. She said
that AMFAUNA~1 had trained her in this system, and had left ber his.
materials, so that he could use her as a stop-gap communications link
while he was trying to reorganize his net. Cie Cae ACOA
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238. ABAD told her that this was plainly n ue,

the lists were dated later than AMFAUNA-1's departure date, He said he

they had been brought to AMFAUNA-14's apartment by; AMCUTLER-2,
who had been observed coming there on 5 October with Loli CORREOSO., .
(Phis was true, according to AMFAUNA-14. AMCUTLER-2 and lin CORREOSO
bad brought the pasgenger manifests to AMFAUNA-14's house at about 1630
or 1700 houre on 5 October, and had stayed about fifteen minutes. AT
1400 hours that same day, ANFAUNA-14 had had a meeting with AMPAUNA-39, _
the first in two weeks, initiated by AMFAUNA-39 by means of a telephone
call to AMFAUNA-1's mother. who was serving as cutout between then.
AMNVAINA-38 had called the meeting to ask whether she had received any
instructions from AMFAUNA-1 as to how to,.act in case of an iaternal
upriging, which a number of people in Cuba: seemed to be expecting about

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(The DSE intertogators never at any “time ‘nentioned AMFAUNA-39, or asked
her about this enrlier meetifig, #0 ANFAUNA-14 concludes that she had not
been under intensive surveillance that day; either AMCUTLER-2 had been .
under surveillance on 5 October, or she herself had been under some. kind
-of periodic spot check. )

89. ABAD asked ANFAUNA-14 how she had become acquainted with
ARCUTLER-3, and AHFAUNA-14 repjied that she had met AMCUTLER-2 through
AMPAUNA-2165 , the wife of a cousin of AMFAUNA-14 who igs a prigoner on the

sle of Pines,

90. ABAD then asked AMFAUNA-14 where ier SW materials were, which.
surprised AMFAUNA-14 because she had thought they had been found during
her house search and wore part of the incriminating envelope which ABAD
was holding. AHFAUNA-14 told ABAD where to look for the materials, and
he gent somebody to get then,

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_ 31. ABAD wanted to know how AMFAUNA-1 and AMFAUNA-3 had gotten out
of Cuba. AMFAUNA-14 said she did not know, She said she understood they
were to get their instruction on the street once they had left her apart-
ment,

33. ABAD abruptly asked AMPAUNA™1¢ yhother she knew anybody in

Mayano. AMFAUNA-14 said she did not. hen produced a. photograph —
of SHFAUNS-14 together with AMFAUNA-1 and a 29land told her that she
had been in 2's home in Luyano with AMFAUNA-1 on Saturday, 7 Septe:

He asked AUPAUNA 14 \whother| AMWRE}2 were employed in an embassy, ANMFAUN
14 said ehe did not know but that’ she thought so. She said she knew

to be a personal friend of AMFAUNA-1, and thought that he might
occasionally have helped AMFAUNA-1 with his mail. (It was true that
AIPAUHA-14 had gone to AMWEE32's house on 7 September with AMFAUNA-1.
Later the sane day “AMPAUNA-1, took - her to Miramar to introduce her to

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ABFAUNA-14 concluded that they had not observed this meeting, and that.
‘therezore it had doen adie who had been under surveillance on 7

Beptember and not herself or 'ANFAUNA-1. She also concluded that the DSE.
had been inefficient in not transferring their surveillance to herself.

and AWPAUNA-1.)

he asked. "Could A B-2 have it?" AMFAUNA-14 said she did not know.’
hing about a radio. ~ "Where is the camera?" asked ABAD, AMFAUNA-14-
admitted having geen AMFAUNA-1 with a Minox camera, but said she did not
‘weow what AMFAUNA-1 had done with it, She said she had hoped that ,
ANPAUHA~1 would leave it with her, and pretended to be hurt that he had
pot done so. ABAD asked her whether she had ever seen one like it in
-the £9C0G house, and AMFAUNA-14 said that she had. Throughout the
raion ABAD kept reverting to the subject of the camera: and the
Oo

| 94, ABAD asked AMPAUNA-14 what her connection was with the ico
fenily, Bhe replied that her grandmother was the cousin of AMCOG-3's
‘mother. ABAD said that the whole family had been under observation
.@ long time, and mentioned. an organization (name not remembered or
‘IpaunA-14) ’ which AUCOG-2 had worked with during the Batista era, °
he wanted to know, was ANCOG-3 doing. AMFAUNA-14 said that she di
think he was doing anything clandestine. ABAD replied that the DSE
positive that AMCOG-3 was doing secret work. AMFAUNA-14 said tha
: should not delude itself, that the entire family was too sel:
engage in anything of the kind. “

35. ABAD asked what the. diplomatic visitors to the AMCOG household
talk about. AMVAUNA-14 said that they never talk Ona as ABAD asked ©

that he was waiting for the Bituation to settle,

: 36. "what about ‘QuPAUNA-32" asked ABAD. "Did she fork | 5

:| AMPAUNA-1?" AMFAUNA-14 said that she did sot, but that she son
gave him information. ...ABAD. wanted to know whether ANFAUNA-3 iit

i Florida, AMP AUNA-14 ° answered that FAUNA~

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had been involved somehow with her gister who lives in Florida. ABAD
asked whether AMFAUNA-14 had been a good friend of AMFAUNA-3, and she
@aid that she had been. ABAD asked wheather AMFAUNA-14 had ever heard .
AMPAUNA-3 speak about the Escambray insurgents, AMFAUNA-14 said that - mo)
she had not. ABAD asked whether AMFAUNA-3 had had contacts with any :
embassy people, for example the Spanish Embazsy. AMFAUNA-14 said that

she did not know of any such contacts. .

37. “How abcut ANCUTLER-23?" askec ABAD. "Wa know that she spends
® lot of time there," AMFAUNA-14 said she did rot know,

38. ABAD asked AMFAUNA-14 if she were a revolutionary. AMFAUNA-~14
said that she was not, but that neither was she against the revolution.
She said that she had joined the militia early in the revolution, but
had soop dropped out because there were some things about the revolution
which she did not understand. For instance, she could not understand
why thore should be so many shortages and rationing, whereas before the
revolution there had been plenty. ABAD exp)sined that the shortages wer
the result of the imperialist blockade of Cvba., AMFAUNA-14 seid that
ehe could understand thie, but that it did not explain why there should |
be a shortage of coffee when Cuba grew its own, ABAD said that coffee
was in short supply because Cuba was sending coffee to the Soviet Union
in gratitude for Soviet assistance in overcoming shortages caused by the
imperialist blockade, §AMFAUNA-14 replied that this was very logical
now that it had been explained to her, and said she wondered why the
revolutionary government did not publicly say so in order to put an end
to public grumbling on the subject. : 4

39, -Barly in the morning of 9 October, ABAD produced the letter ™ .
which AMPAUNA-14 received from AMFAUNA-1 on 7 October and held up the
letter to the light, examining it carefully for traces of SW. AMFAUNA-
Ato developer pilile ware brought end che wae tala tn Aavealan the lettea
which she did in ‘the presence of ABAD, "Carlos, "anda third man whom
ahe was unable to get a good look at. All were very surprised and
disappointed when nd secret writing appeared. They kept asking her if
@he were sure she was doing it right, and began intimating that she was”
deceiving them. (Station Comment; It is indeed surprising that no :
secret writing appeared, because this letter was almost” undoubtedly the.
one containing SW meseage no, 1 to AMFAUNA-14,) . 4

40. ANFAUNA-14 also explained the use of her carbons, The only
accommodation address she gave away was AMFAJNA-l's JMWAVE area post
office box. She deliberately protected the (Rosa JUSTIZ hddress (the
home of ANPAN~2), not knowing whether this waa a re a fictitious
person. ba 2 24 °

41. “Carlos" and ABAD now invited AMFAUNA-14 to work with them, She
replied that ashe might be willing to do go, but first wanted to know
what work would be expected of her, For instance, she said, she would
not inform on people in her office. They told her that this would not
be agkedof her, because that sort of work is done by the Defense
Committees. Her work, they said, would be much more important, namely
paintaining a link between themselves and KUBARK, She aaid that would
be all right, but she was afraid that it would not last long because —
KUBARE would probably put her on ice as soon as they learned that she
had been arrested. They told her not to worry about that. . .

42. -“Carlos" and ABAD suggested to her that AMFAUNA-1 had briefed
her to agree to cooperate with them. She denied this, claiming that she
had not really wanted to work with ANMFAUNA~1 at all, but had merely let:
herself be imposed on for old times sake. They asked whether they
could trust her. She said she thought sco, and asked whether she could
trust them to ksep their promises, They assured her that she could,
and said ehe would be released the following day. ;

43. In the morning of 10 October, after: beiiig. tod that she was ip

be released, AHPAUNA-14 was moved to a smaller cell without a bath. She:
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her that he was going to keep his word and release her, but that her

original cell was needed for some new prisoners who were expected. He

said that the DSE had received advance word that a boatload of refugees

were going to try to leave Cuba that night. Many of them were women,
tae one of there was pregnant, so he wanted the larger cell with bath
or then,

44. ABAD nilwayes trented AMFAUNA-14 kindly and considerately,
When she had a headache, he ordered aspirin fcr her. Heéysaw to it that
she received soft drinks when she wented them, and he seemed to be
honestly distressed whenever she wert. AKIAUNA-14 believes that it had
been the DSE's intention from the very beginning to recruit her, be-
eauge she doubts that all DSE prisoners are treated as well.

48. The first S¥ message which AMFAUNA-14 wrote while under DSE
control was dated 10 October, the day of her release. The DSE officers
asked her what her control signal. was, and she replied that it was a
rubrio, but also included her true control signal. She deliberately
nusbered her firet controlled SW message no, 2, to conceal the fact
that she had already written several messages containing intelligence
reports. ;

48. In 211 she wrote three SW messages. under control, She was ;
obliged to write each one in duplicate, one “of which was mailed and the
other given to the DSE for study.. One day "Carlos" came to her very
angrily, said he doubted that her carbons were anything more than

> L ordinary paper because he had been unable to develop anything | that she _

thd eed btan aed hun ntanand

he aed el ee ee AVOTR ATTA A OF
Some, WR SEU esy Eee Vase WEE Sew Ros with rvearvest. AMPFAUNS-14 toid han

‘that she did not know anything about it, but that if by chance he had
tried to develop the letters she had written with the pills he had
‘taken-from her, it would not work. This surprised "Carlos," and
‘AMPAURA-14 explained that there were two different SW syatens, one for .
| outgoing mail and the other for incoming. "Carlos" then asked her if .
’ there were any significance to the size of envelope used, or to the ways

the letter paper was folded, AMFAUNA-14 said she did not think so.

_AMPAUNA-14 feels that "Carlos" and ABAD never completely believed that ©

“fe she had an SW system, because none of the letters which she received

@isclosed 8W when developed, and none of the letters which she wrote
showed any traces of &W when held up to glancing light.

47. "Cariog" was the DSE officer who maintained contact with
AMPAUNA-14 after her release, For two or three weeks he saw her every

' day at her apartment, sometimes for only twenty minutes, and sometimes

ataying for several hours, frequently late at night. Occasionally he
called her at her office. Finally AMFAUNA-14 told him that she had to
get up early in the morning to go to work, and asked him to visit her

‘eariy in the evening, which he agresd to do. At.the time of the in-
' tercepted ANGLOSSY landing in Pinar del Rio, "Carlos" did not visit
“ANPAUNA-14 for five days. When he finally returned, he was dirty,

aweaty and tired, He dictated an SW letter he wanted AMFAUNA-14 to

-gend to KUBARK, and while she was writing it he fell asleep.

-  “@8, AMFAUNA-14 had to prepare written reports for him, which she’
:"pigned. with the pseudonym "Dolores." He told her never to call him at
‘DBE feadquartere, because he was never there. Once he brought her a
book on Marxism to read, and promised to take her someday to visit a
collective farm in Pinar del Rio Province,

49. Despite his occasional efforts to get her to pick up the thread.

of the AMFAUNA net, AMPAUNA-14 believes that the primary target she was

. intended to work against. was the AMCOG household. From remarks made by

both ABAD and "Carlos", she deduced that they already had an informer
in the house, but that they were not satisfied with his production, .
Toward the end of her period of DSB -controlled activity,.-she felt that
_ the DSE was becoming relatively less interested in AMFAUNA>] and his ~
“net, and more in the AMCOG household, ve ee

50. They asked her about one Vicente LAGO, who is a, Ggular guest.
: at: the ANCOG house and who ‘Seems to be particularly interes ang to, them,

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_ They also wanted to know what dip long ie v ATt the AMCOGs, When she
wentioned the. ons (Tom UBSADA), they exclaimed and said

hey were very intereste n him, and asked whether she could arrange

invitations to His house. Other diplomatic personne] AMFAUNA-14 mPa om
hos Wate, Wane MFOSCHINI ( Bud
j 7 Tapas : Se fq ox the DutcE
Brasilian sador.LaisPRBASTIA to, a female
secrotary of the United Arab Republis Cacciniite ie BCom of n former
Zepanese Ambasmador, Fortunately, during the four weeks following

,

\ 81. With the knowledge and encouragement of the DSE,—AWFAUNA-14

visited the ANCOG house nearly every day. Her first visit took place ‘
at noon on 1] October and she stayed until about 1800 hours, during
which time she told AMCOG-3 the entire story, He listened and took a
few notes, but kept most of the story in his memory, He encouraged

and calued AMFAUNA-14, told her to follow DSE instructions to the letter
and assured her that KUBARK would send her instructions. ;

ol . AMFAUNA~14's immediate preoccupations were AMCUTLER-2 and
At 8 (whom she knew to be blown to the DSE ag KUBARK agents),

“39 (who was not yet identified but had her telephone number and
might oall her at any moment with damaging resulta to himself), and ~
the possible arrival of SWrymessages from KUBARK naming other agent
- personnel, | ° .

63. Oa 11 October, the day after her release, AMFAUNA-14 sent a

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Heppage iv ANCUDLDR—-S Via ARTAUNA-15 and the acthor cf Mancle VILLAMANAN

warning her wr e had been arrested. She also asked AMCOG-2 to send
WEE. :

a warning to 2, sie Ap | bork ws ter WH TEST baw
) " Bote 3 lVIGT Sune Gavidpod Loy Oe |
84. On 13 or 14 eenCOG-2 went to the home of bert ins
O'PARRILL where she met Wande INI whom she asked merely to warn
a7, @ that the DSE had AMWEEHS2Z ‘identified. .)Two or three daya later, -
Wanda” FOSCHINI reported backyjto AHCOG-2 that wee 2 evidently was not. :

taking the warning seriously. By this time, however, AHNFAUNA-14 was; :
lane knew that something was wrong, because he had tele- 4

oned AMPAUNA-1's mother asking for "Soledad{“and had been told that ail.’
ledad" was unknown. (Regarding Albertina 'FARRILL'S knowledge of >

these developments, AMFAUNA-14 believes that she probably knew nothing:
q

ore than inet AMFAUNA-14 had been arres eon releases. )
: . ‘ OF A0(- ;
65. On ober AMFAUNA-14 sent a warning telephone ca 322675
ANPAUHA-39. She dialled 20-6104) and told the woman who answered "Please
~¢031 Hanolo that Soledad calledgband that he should not telephone me

because I am going to be out of Havana and will call him when I return '
| APAUWA-14 is not sure now whether AHCOG-3, whom she consulted on the

“peat way to do this, had noted the telephone number,

ob se, o On to Whom AEFAUN, re T-WaYhing was her lever
(Nanuel ANIONI) whose warnage i¢MAlejandre,j/' Unbeknowns 5
G-3, she sent @ meswage to(COMPANIONI) via -ANCOG-3'g etmiuffeur
telling him to stay away from herpbbut asking him to-telephone. her

87. On 20 October when she arrived home from wortt;—AFAU
found "Carlos" waiting downstairs for her, Trying to divert his atten-
tion from the mail box, she invited him to come right in, but he asked .
her why she did not open her mail box first. She did so and found two
letters from ANFAUNA-1, dated 19 and 25 September, They both contained
veiled references to names like "Carmina" (AMCUTLER~2), "Edgardo,"
(AMPAUNA-37), "B1 Grando" (AMPAUNA-25), andg('Igor") (AMWEE)2)¢! One of
them instructed AMFAUNA~14 to have, "Carmina" introduce her to "Edgardo"
and the other intimated that (teor" had something for her.

. 58. "Carlos" ordered her to develop these letters, and she did 80,
Ho secret writing appeared, which did not surprise AMFAUNA-14 because
the letters themselves contained instructions for her, but it did

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Surprise "Carlos" who again began to accuse AMFAUNA-14 of double-
crossing him. AMFAUNA-14 explained the absence of SW by saying that
KUBARK was probnbly testing its communications channels and waiting

for things to quiet down before gaending messages. 0
89. "Carios" then told AMFAUNA-1.4 to get in touch with wGl)a
an t the package which he was holcing for her, She telephoned

2 from her offices and said she wanted to see him.) WEEJ2 agreed
to a meeting, but stipulated that it be after 1700 hours and in his .
office, AMFAUNA- 14 reported this conversation to "Carlos" who told
her to proceed with the meeting. .

9} 60. ane 2 took AMFAUNA-14 into a emai room, “where she quickly
piained the situation (she felt she should not spend much time in
2's office because she was afraid the DSE had her under surveil-.

—lahee} this was confirmed laterdlwhen "Carlos" asked her casually how
“auch time she had spent in aie office, apparently trying. to
catch. her out ina lie). AM 2 seemed surprised, and worried, and
told her to take care of herself’ | She told avin 2 that the reason
the DSE had wanted her to meet with him was to pick up a package which
they believed he was holding for her..o|AMWEE}2 replied that he was no
“longer in a position to receive or send packages, because the diplomat
with whom he had been cooperating had been declared persona non grata,

61. “Garios" niso told AMFAUNA-14 ‘to ‘contact AMCUTLER~-2 to arrange
--¢he* introduction to "Edgardo,"’ AMFAUNA-14 telephoned AMCUTLER-2's
‘umber, expecting to be told that AMCUTLER-2 was not there, and was :
very surprised when ANCUTLER-2 herself came to the telephone, AMFAUNA-
‘14 told AMCUTLER-2 that she wanted to see her, but AMCUTLER-2. said she
had: a bad case of asthma and could not see anybody. AMFAUNA-14 re-
_, Dorted thie convergation to "Carlos,"

a0. awbatng ty abel Sr vee acon: :
=A dantdad ‘thot “dunuer ep ‘Qhad cithes ast vocedved or

pd sot understood. the warning message sent to “her, 80 8 she sent
UTEZR-2 two more oral messages via AMFAUNA-15 and one via Lolita
BON explicitly advising her to hide or take asylun.

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_ 68. “Carlos” continued to press AMFAUNA-14 to see AMCUTLER-2, and
ABCUTLER-2 showed no signs of heeding AMFAUNA-14's warnings, AWFAUNA~14_
herefore sent one more message, this time a written one, via Lolita 4
(FORMOSO paying that she really must see AMCUTLER-2 in the latter's ;
ome fof the purpose of coordinating cover stories. AMCUTLER-2 then “
_ paid a visit to the home of Lolita mnogo to pass the message that she

 BEFeed to the meeting.

64. On 3 November, with the knowledge of "Carlos," AMFAUNA-14 went
to. ASCUTLER-3's house. "Carlos" briefed her to obtain an introduction

|° (to. "Edgardo", to find out where AMCUTLER-2's coffee shops were/located, | |

"and to. find out whether ANCUTLER-1 whe a a close friend of Eloy GUTIERRE

S. 68. AMCUTLER-2 told AMFAUNA~14 to tell
“hot a close friend of GUTIERREZ Menoyo. She sajd to add that
angry with AMCUTLER-1 and thinking of divorcing hi

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68, AMVAUNA-14 and AKCUTLER-2 devised the. following cover stories
- for the protection of the source of the airline /passenger manifests

(AMFAUNA-18, whom ANFAUNA-14 does not know) and of "Edgardo" (AMF AUNA- |
m7, Whoa AMFAUNA-14 does not know):

(a) Before leaving Cuba, AMFAUNA~1 had asked AMCUTLER-2 to
look out for his mother, and to pass onto AMFAUNA-14 anything that ,
.- might come addressed to "Betty." Oné day, a colored woman called at

_ ABCUTLER-3' 8 coffee shop on Calle San Rafael with a package addressed
‘to “Betty”. The coffee shop employees had thought that the package was
‘intended. for an. employee whose name is "Ketti" and had given it to her,
‘but ‘she said’ was ‘not hers, and there mattere rested until one day .
when ANCUTLER= visited the coffee shop and was told about. the incident,
She told her eaployees that she knew who the package was i tended for,
ahaa _tanw 44° ow with her. “shy,

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(b) AMCUTLER-2 had received a-letter from AMFAUNA-1 dated 18
October saying that she would receive a visit from a person known to her

“who would introduce himself as "Edgardo", and asking her to introduce

~ “Bdagardo" to AMFAUNA-14, This person has not yet arrived, and AMCUTLER-|
3 does not know who he ia. .

. 87. AMCUTLER-2 agreed to stick to these stories in case she is
interrogated, and to brief "Ketti" to support the coffee shop story.

She also told AMFAUNA-14 she had decided to go into hiding immediately,
AMFAUNA-14 asked her not to do it so soon after her visit, but AMCUTLER-
2 said that AMFAUNA-14 should provids her with cover by telling the DSE
that. AMCUTLER-2 had spoken of taking a holiday at Varadero, ;

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68, Making her report to "Carlos" after this meeting, AMFAUNA-14
teld these cover stories as though they had just been revealed to her

by ABCUTLER-2.

68. 4 fourth letter arrived from AMFANNA-1, consisting of two

pages of overt text. AMFAUNA-14 was sure that it contained SW because
.of the banalities in the cover letter. Before turning it over. to
"Carlos" she took it to AMCOG-3 who had sumebody make a literal copy
-of it and then destroyed the original. AmMFAUNA-14 turned the copy over
to "Carlos" who had her develop it, and was again disappointed and angry
when no SW showed up. (Station comment: this letter had contained SW
number groups for OWVL reception. )

:: 970. On or about 10 November 1963, AMFAUNA-14 prepared a written
‘ peport for the DSE on the visitors to the AMCOG household.: This report
| ‘wag actually dictated by AMCOG-3 to AMFAUNA-14 who took it down on the
4 _ typesriter. She then made a handwritten copy of the report to turn in

, to the DSE, keeping the typewritten copy for self-briefing. She brought
. the typenritter cory eut with. hore Following 4c a literal tranclaticn:

cla De der tes ALLE are

pbQel & . .
tha prey srnesto ‘@MAKTL and his wire Lolita: I do not know tnem

very well. “a r tan say about them 18 what I have heard, that -they
‘are old friends of the fami and that the doctor took a trip to Mexico
oe with AKCOG-3's uncles ;iatter's election,

: b. Sr. “Peare ae and his wife Margot: He is a bes or fot,
Justo SCARRI 8 en a friend of | amily for a long time.
They sympathize with the Revolution in some * aspects, but their daughter
; (who I think is engaged to the son of AMCOG-2) left Cuba for exile, and
this caused them to change. I do not know why their daughter had to.
‘take asylum,

hyp ae
ean D0 Ge ‘Dr. Oscar tn INA_and pis wife Margarita: Within the family
she has the nickname e. gs a judge. ntil very recently he
‘was neutral, but now it seems t at they have loaded him with work and

he is in a very bad mood because I believe he has the work of eight
cuses.) She does not sympathize much with the Revolution, They have no
- echildfen, but aimost all of her family is abroad which I think is her
: principal reason for being discontented,

or eee oe tesa GOO pr Pyne
ae des _d. Sra, Nenita de feCARAMES: She 1s the wife ot/#nu CARAMES ,
the former ChieY of Police G¥ Havana, She has a daughter by him whom io

she“ brings. to. lunch every Sunday, and she is also caring for a son of
. CARAMES who is insane and in an asylum, I do not believe that at the
moment she is on good terms with her husband who is abroad, and there-
fore she is neither against nor in favor, Actually I believe she is

afraid that the ‘situation will change and her husband will return,

oor e. 8r; Forriando/SSTEFFANI: An elderly gentleman who is the -l
‘father of an Intimate friend of AMCOG-2, who out of pity has given him.

Standing invitation for ever Uunday. To be sure, the poor fellow
3 rather tiresome. coats Nf

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f, Elsa/@pIAZ Biart: Her family has been friendly with/the
AMCOG family Tor meny years. They ware school friends. ake as a

sister abroad end a brother who is in priaon. Her father and mother
seldom come to the house, A sister of hert is a doctor of some farm, '
All she does is obtain medicines for the piisoners, thereby causing
a lot of trouble for AMCOG-2, AMCOG-3 and the old mans vd gor soupy

‘

cet g. Joaquin Bhancuez and his wife Sara: <According to what I

‘Rave heard, he {6 a travelling salesman for some laboratory.) His wife
is the sister of the wife of the old man's two nephews, Pancho and
' ANCOG-3 (sic). I have also heard that she is always trying to get
medicine for her son who, from what I have heard, is abnormal.

te 1... a yobs wh ts.

"an h. ‘Dr, Maria Dolores BANCHEZ” Pessino: She lost both her
” father and mother when she was rteen years old, and the AMCOG family
took her in as an adopted daughter, The old man paid for her education.
She is like a daughter to him, and like a sister to the nephew and nieca.
She works in the emergency hospital, She is not openly opposed to the
regime, but nevertheless the separation from her brother and her relati
has greatiy affected a
“y os ; . .

(Dry Vicente (#LAGO and his wife Maria Julia: His brother

Roberto LAGOS ri died soe years ago, was Pola’s first husband, They
have two zons abroad. From what I have heard, he devotes himself ex-—
clusivyely to his profession, and it is she who is most upset by the
separation from her children. ..:. --.»~ Se od Ciat

j. vercedesF#VALDES sass, A case very similar to that of *
STEPFANI, except tha t “ghe TS a woman who is a very good friend of th. * 2%.

- AMCOG-2's husband,’and°4e°in the same situation with her relatives —
abroad. She is “just one more of the many refugees in search of warmth »
and friendship, with no friends left in Cuba,

a
- k. Julio /SBRAVO: A long-time friend of Pancho, all his tani
is abroad. He Is another case of warmth and friondship, he uses the:
awisming pool a lot, ae ie alone, I have even seen him cutting trees
with AMCOG-3, a typical case of an unhappy man, in the afternoons. he
_ plays chess with the old man, and I have never heard him gay anything
‘bad about anybody, not even about the situation, the only thing - as is
natural - he misses his daughters and his Wife Lie pif th ae 4

Aw “ .

a en 1, Raquel CASKGRAN: The ‘widow of the Director of Culture. in}

Grau Government, Jesus CASAGRAN, and sister of Raul LAZARO who was
itary aide to both Grau and Prio, She is very highly regarded by |
the family. J have never heard her express herself in any way against
the Government; I would call her neutral,
ew At we Ce Ae sche aint tiné reps
o> a*\ oe, Olga HECENTET: “Former wite of. “Joss Waria. de -la=Agy r:

she comes to e se © her two daughters and hermother who«. 18-8
cousin of Sra. Paulina. AMCOG-2 helped her a lot.in hiding her,
during the Batista tyranny. I have also heard that AMCOG-3 he lpe
with her divorce. Apparently she does not sympathize with thé: Re
although I believe that it is out of spite against her husban
nother # name is Leopoldina SANCHEZ Vda. de Crecerte, and her

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aARUCGU ramiiy 101 “RRny yousoo BOY ae we ow a ww ce ee ee 0 eee
sister abroad and.a brother: who is in prison, Her father and mother
weldom come to) the house, A sister of hers is a doctor of some. farm,

. AYl she’does is obtain medicines for the’ prisoners, thereby causing |,”
a lot of trouble for AMCOG-2, AMCOG-3 and the old man, at yer. LATIF |

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Ag ' ge. Joaquin Shancuez and his wife: Sara: hccording: to what I
chave heard, he {5 a trave ng #6lesman ror some laboratory, His wife |
is the sister of the wife of the old man's two nephews, Pan and .

AMCOG-3 (sic). I have also heard that she is always trying to get
‘medicine for her son who, from what X have. heard, ig abnormal,
; oa oe te Coe as ne a

“aa - he. (Dr, Maria Dolores | BANCHEZ’ “Pers ino: She lost “both her.
” father and mother when she was rteen years old, and the AMCOG family
took her in as -an adopted daughter. The oid man paid for her education.
She is like a daughter to him, and Jike a sister to the nephew and nieca,
She works in the emergency hospital, She is not openly opposed to the
regime, but nevertheless the separation from her brother and her relati
has greatly affected NOT. nic tot tag lin Meee ee ee

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npes ‘ Vicente [wLAco and his wife Maria puarea vei His ‘brother
Roberto LAGOY * oO Bohie years ago, was Pola‘s first husband, They
have two sons abroad. From what I have heard, he devotes. himself _ex-
clusiyely to his profession, and it is she who is most upset” ‘by the

@eparation from her children, ..:.-..9 S00 2 cas
“Tah yg, Mercedes Fev ALDES ‘Chacon: A case very similar to that of
STEPFANI, excep S a woman who is a very good friend of «.

AHCOG-2's husband, pani: earn the same situation with her relatives
: abroad. She is “just one more of the many refugees in search of warmth
‘y and friendship, with no friends left in Cuba. .

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mt k. Julio /MBRAVO: A long-time friend of Pancho, ali Hie family
ie abroad, He is another case of warmth and friendship, he.uses the
swimming pool a lot, he is alone, I have even seen him cutting trees
with AHCOG<-3, a typical case of an unhappy man, in the afternoons hs
plays chess with the old man, and I have never heard him say anything
bad about anybody, not even about the situation, the only thing - as is
natural - he misses his daughters and his SCC LEONI Ge RST CTSLES STE ae _

a rere ak

- one 4?! 4, Raquel RCASKGRAN: © The “widow “of the Director of Culture in
t Grau Government, sesus CASAGRAN and sister of Raul LAZARO who was

B litary a1 aide to both Grau and Prio. She is very highly regarded by
the family I have never heard her express herself in any way against.
the Government; I would call her e neutral. .

. a 4 artpagi ae feb LI4UT 4.
72 gage ence: © ‘pormer wife of Jose Maria dela. Aguilera
she comes to e se @ her two daughters and hermother who is a.
cousin of Sra, Paulina, AMCOG-2 helped her a lot in hiding her husband
during the Batista tyranny, I have also heard that AMCOG-3 helped her
with her divorce. Apparently she does not sympathize with the Revolutian,
althou 1 believe that it is out of spite against her husband. Her
nother name is Leopoldina SANCHEZ Vda. de Crecente, and her nickname
Ais onga. ; ati Abia.

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case. of family warmth,

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rmand © who is a_ close friend of)

ERO th® husband of Polita, She.is another

cause after all her family had left she came '

of friendship, She has wanted to leave Cuba

ever able to, This ig her principal obsession

an t of her mother as well, She has been coming to the house a lot

ast thre e@ years, and has become a very good friend of the -

hough : ‘in reality | it was her cousin who was a better friend
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- "9, 7 Rosendo Feeacto and Sra. “Leop oldina Prana: this couple has
two children who are really hers from her ret marr age, Manolito and
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Grau line, She is more or less neutral, and devotes herself to her
teaching work, He devotes himself exclusively to his. work.,,

- p. .Manuel *COMPANIONI and his wife Alicia: They have been
acquaintances on AHCOU-2 and AMCOG-3 for many years, although it was not
a close friendship, rather a friendship of Montmartre, Tropicana, etc,

A daughter of theirs is abroad. He too was a very good friend of .Armand
FEO who used to be a friend of the family, and now in’ the course of time
they have become closer friends of the family. In other words it is
another case of friendship caused by being abandoned by others. He has
&@ small deodorant factory in the same house where they live. They both

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q. Jack/®CONNILL a1 and his wife Martie: ‘iis mother has been #&
very goad friend oY the familly for many years, and she was a school
friend of the two nieces of the old man, This couple have always heen
friends of the family, the more so now that so many of their friends
have left Cuba.

71. AMFAUNA-14 turned this report over to "Carlos" on 11 or 12
November. At this meeting he asked her to try to make contact with
AMFAUNA-3's brother who he said had been transferred to a hospital in
Las Villas, AMFAUNA-14 said she would try, but thought it would be-
@ifficult. This was the last time she saw "Carlos, He telephoned her
again on 16 November to ask what was new, and this was their last 4
telephone contact.

72. When AMFAUNA-14 arrived at AMCOG-3's house at about 2000 hours
on 15 November 1963 ror the regular Friday night supper, he took her
aside and said he wanted to speak to her privately later, At about
4330 hours she went to his room, There he told her that he had received
orders that she was to leave Cuba the following week. He said that .
precise instructions were to come on 16 and 17 November, so he made a
lunch date with her for Sunday noon at his house.

73. AMFAUNA-14 was frightened by this. She did not ‘sleep well
Priday or Saturday nights, and spent Saturday in her home.

74. Sunday afternoon in AMCOG-3's house, AMCOG-3 told her that she
waa to leave the following day, She said that she did not want to,
AMCOG-3 reeponded that this was an order. He said that the DSE would
probably arrest her again soon, and for her own safety and that of other
she must leave. He added that there were others who were to leave too,
whose departure had been made conditional upon her own, . Lo,

75, AMFAUNA-14 asked whether AMCUTLER-2 were one of these other
people who were to leave too, and AMCOG-3 replied that she was, AMFAUNA
14 told him that she thought AMCUTLER-2 would not agree to leave, AMC
said that he thought she would because the orders had been couched in
very strong terns,

76. He then showed her the instructions, both for herself and for
AMCUTLER-2. He. had her type her instructions on a piece of paper, and
then memorize them, wernal

77, Then AMCOG-3 gave AMFAUNA-14 the following verbal. messages ° to °
deliver when she reached JMWAVE: . .

(a) <A colonel] fnu LANDEJRA, a tank expert who had ‘been. in the
“Cuban Army under GRAU and PRIO, is a prisoner on a farm in Havana Pro-.
vince. He is given three days off per week to go home, His wife knows
in advance when he will be coming out, AMCOG-3 does not know the wife;

- but has indirect contact to her, ANCOG-3 says the man is honest and
' intelligent and fal real soldier, and if we want him out AMCOG-3 can

arrange it.

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had been noved to a new hiding place. AMCOG-3 was considering trying
to help the young man into asylum in the Uruguayan Embassy through a
certain ("Pepin") whose identity is not known to AMFAUNA~14 but; who she
thinks is oe" UFxuguayan attache.

{c) AMCOG-3 is out of one-time pads and needs a resupply.

(ad) It is very possible that AMCUQ-3 may be able to obtain ’
and forward a copy of AMFAUNA- 14 DSE dossier. an

78. On Wonday morning, 18 Novembor, AMPAUNA-14 dressed as she had
been instructed, and atuffed a pair of slacks and sneakers into the
etraw handbag which she had been told to carry. At 1300 hours she left
her office and proceeded on foot to the coiner of Atares and Arango in
Reparto Luyano, arriving there at 1400 hours, Here she exceeded her
instructions, waiting for AMCUTLER-2 not five minutes but fifteen. She
then walked very slowly toward Calzada Luyano, hoping that AMCUTLER-2
might overtake her. This consumed another ten minutes, and by the time 3
she reached the Calzada Luyano it was too iate for. her to walk the re- |. ;
mainder of the distance, so she took a taxi. : ‘

79, AMFAUNA-14 discharged the taxi one block before thePargque de
la Virgen del Camino and walked the rest of the way. She went to the
sbrine where she prayed for a few minutes, and then sat on a bench
from which she could see the whole park.

80. At 1310 hours a 1954 Buick taxi arrived at the park, The
driver stayed in the car, and two men ~ a colored man and a fatr-haired
man - got out and walked around for about ten minutes. Finally they
approached her and gave the challenge, to which she gave the correct
response, One of the men then said simply "Follow me", They took her : Co
back to the taxi and put her in the back seat with one of the men, the. . ee
other two riding in front. . :

81. . They headed out of the city. When the reached the Carretera
de Varadero, one of the men asked her politely if she would mind keepin
her eyes directed down toward the floor and not look out the window. |
She rode this way for about two hours. By then it was dark, and she wa
told she could look up again, She took advantage of the opportunity to
change into her slacks and sneakers.

82, Finally the car stopped, and she and her two escorts got out; 7 t
They walked a long time. At one point, whistle signals were exchanged |. “4
with someone in the darkness, and two other men appeared, one of whom: 2
was AM 2.  AMFAUNA-14 and AMWEE)2 greeted each other politely, but *
pretendeddnct to know each other. 3}

At one point their guide became briefly lost, but found his way again
almost.:imaediately. When they came to the open water, one of the guide
went forward and signalled, The boat came in in response to the signal
AMPAUNA-14 p| Z}2, and the radio man walked out nto knee-deep water —
and climbed into the boat, which already had a crew of two,

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83, They did a lot more walking and joined up with another man, wh =
turned out to be the radio man, He had a lot of equipment with him,
and AMFAUNA-14 and AM@EE}2 helped to carry it. 8
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84. Thoy now reached the mangrove and began to walk through water, =

Bp

85. The boat proceeded out to an unidentified key. The crew con-
cealed it in the mangrove, cleverly lacing and tying branches together
over it to form a camouflage cover, There they went to sleep.

86, The following day, 19 November, was spent at this spot. A
radio message was received during the day. At night the boat put out
for Cayo Megano, The waves were enormous, and. AMFAUNA-14 was terribly
seasick. The boat remained at the rendezvous point until 1045 hours, -~
with AHPAUNA-14 pleading for the crew to return to land, saying she
would rather be shot than remain so seasick. Finally the crew did put
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“ 87. Wednesday, 20 Novenber, was Bpent on the same key. very, °
=-Jong radio message was. received during the day, AMFAUNA-14 tnd AMWEE 2

‘F both helped the radio man to decipher it, and their combined efforts :
took about three hours,’ Then they put out again for the Cayo Megano |
rendezvous point. By this time their drinking water ‘was all gone, ;
The boat was overloaded, so much of the food’ and equipment waa left |
behind on the key. Again no ship appeared. ‘This time, instead of }
returning to their original hiding Place, the crew took the boat to
Cayo: Mosquito. 7 i L i

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; 88, Here they apent the remainder of, tha! ‘night, and all ct Thursday
91 November, Thoir water was gone, there war very little food left, §
and there was only enough gasoline left for one more one-way trip’
out to.the rendezvous point, At 1400 hours Gn 2] November another
radio message was received With the combined efforts of the radio
man, AMFAUNA-14 and AMWED g| it: took between two and .three hours to
decipher it. Everybody: 4 very optimistic; they were all sure that
they would be Picked up that night. 7: : y i

89. Promptly at 2300 hours the ship was seen approaching. © The
boat put out immediately, and {ts passengers were taken aboard. the ship
AHPAUNA-14 was taken into the sick bay where she was Biven a pill, a
little water, md somewhat later some warm broth,

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90; From the moment she stepped into the : ‘boat on 18 November , unt it}
she was hauled out by ‘the armpits on 21 November, AMFAUNA-14 ni
the boat. Her side and legs were bruised from the pounding of: the
waves: against. the boat. A little blood vessel in her ‘right eye was
broken by a twig snapping in her face as she walked through the man-
grove, This was treated by the ship's! doctor, i :

el, " AMPAUNA~ 14 says that the AMHICK team performed very well. The
pickup in the park was done excellently. The slight delay while they
looked her over, she says, was due to the fact that the men had ex-
pected another woman to be with her, and they were waiting a few minute
din case the other woman should show up. The AMHICK. team said that the
had also boen briefed that she would be wearing her hair in a bun.
She had not been briefed accordingly, and she was wearing her hair
down her back in & pony tail. This discrepancy did not cause any con-
fusion, because every other item of the visual recognition signals 2
tallied perfectly, and the AMHICK team were well briefed on all of thei

@2, AMFAUNA-14 was impressed by the precise timing of the team's
movements, by the fact that everybody was whsre he was supposed to be
at the time indicated, She expressed admiration for their seamanship,
and their ability to pick out one spot of mangrove from another in
the pitch darkness.

93. She says that, during these trying days, the team members were
always in calm control of the situation, and never failing in their
courtesy to her.

@4. Regarding AMCUTLER~2, AMFAUNA-14 is sure that the exfiltration
- dnetructions reached her. They were taken, she said, by Lolita FORHOS
who had been standing by for them from Friday to Sunday. What Lolita
did with them, AMPAUNA-14 does not know, She knows that we had
suggested that Lolita take them to AMFAUNA-1's mother, but she also
knows that we had indicated to AHCOG-3 that AMPAUNA-1's mother might
be under surveillance, so she thinks Lolita might have taken them
directly to AMCUTLER-2. In any case, she knows that messages sent
proviously by AMCOG~3 to AMCUTLER-2 reached the latter, and she sees
no reason to assume. that these instructions did not.
95.. It does not surprise AMFAUNA~14 that AMCUTLER-2 did not follow
the, orders, .ANCUTLER-2, she says, plays her own game with little: con-
4deration for others, Between the time that AMFAUNA-1 left Cuba on

~ooptember , and the time that AMFAUNA- 14 was arrested on 7 October wy 2/n/
_AMCUTLER-2 had visited AMFAUNA-14" 8 apartment twice. On both occasién ’

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AMPAUNA-14 had asked her to remove the suitcase that AMFAUNA-i had ieft
behind, but on both occasions AMCUTLER-2 had found some excuse not to
do so; When AMFAUNA-14 visited AMCUTLER-2 in her home in, Guanabacoa
on 3 November for the purpose of coordinating their cover stories,
AMCUTLER-2 did not seem very interested in coordinating stories or
anything else. AMFAUNA-14 believes that AMCUTLER-2 may be working for
the Second Front of the Escambray, becausq@,her 7..
‘very close friend Lolin *CORREOSO is the fiancee of.Hipolito ARRAURT ft
who was a collector for this organization. Among other reasgns
possibly keeping AMCUTLER-2 in. Cuba, AMFAUN‘-14 says that AMCUTLER-2's
mother is sick with cancer, and there may ks something wrong between
AMCUTLER-1 and AMCUTLER-2. Set Veta aw ‘d (eos ; cas CLs
- Ay pea conbe XS
96. - AMFAUNA-14 algo had her reasons for not wanting to joave’ Guba,
Besides the dangers of the trip, she would be leaving her mother and
father in a dangerous position, because the DSE had forced her to
Sign a confersion implicating them. While she appears to be trying not
to be overly critical of AMCUTLER-2, she has commented that AMCUTLER-2
knows far more members of the AMFAUNA net than she herself does, so
that the reasons requiring the exfiltration of AMFAUNA-14 should be
even more compelling for AMCUTLER-2

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